Mirabel Pictures

Programs: Survivors: weowntv is in ongoing collaboration with the freetown? Media center on a feature-length documentary titled, survivors. Through the eyes of sierra leonean filmmakers, the film presents a portrait of their country during the ebola outbreak, exposing the complexity of the epidemic and the socio-political turmoil that lies in its wake. This film and its outreach components have been supported by itvs, neh, sundance, and others. The film is scheduled to have a national broadcast on pbs award-winning series pov in the summer of 2018. It will be shown in film festivals and public screenings internationally and across the u. S.

htbd (yo) - heaven through the back door: this is a feature-length documentary film currently titled, heaven through the back door about yolanda yo shae, as she faces the end of her life with the same grace and style she possessed through her previous 88 years. Using intimate observational footage from the last two years of yos life, along with handcrafted puppets that play out riveting stories from yos rich past on elaborate built sets, this film transports viewers into the fantastical world of yo as she prepares for the next great adventure -- death. The film explores how ideas about aging, death, and dying are often repressed and hidden in our youth oriented culture as well as the ways in which the tradition of oral history and grassroots organization rise up in the vacuum of support that often exists in poor communities.

freetown media center & filmmaker fellowship:weowntv continues to support the freetown media center, based in freetown, sierra leone, which provides access to equipment, and supports a collective of talented? Young filmmakers. Weowntv has created sensitization public service announcements during the ebola outbreak. In 2016, weowntv in collaboration with the team at the freetown media center held an inaugural filmmaker fellowship, which entailed an open call for submissions of plans for short documentary films from independent filmmakers in sierra leone, liberia, and guinea. Nine filmmakers were selected to take part and they received cash grants to complete their films, and media production training in a series of workshops in sierra leone.